Mini CV

Lars Frisén was born, raised, and educated in Göteborg (aka Gothenburg), Sweden, and was awarded an MD in 1966 and a PhD in 1968, at the University of Gothenburg. A one-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology followed in 1972-3, with William F Hoyt, MD, at the University of California, San Francisco.

Academic life began in 1960, as an amanuensis (junior teacher) in human anatomy at the University of Gothenburg, turned to ophthalmology at the university hospital (Sahlgren's) in 1968, and to full-time clinical neuro-ophthalmology in 1971. Appointments included docent of human anatomy in 1968, docent of clinical neuro-ophthalmology in 1973, and adjunct professor in 2000 (preferring full-time clinical work, I never wanted to be a professor). Mandatory retirement took place in 2006.

Publications  Some 100 are listed in PubMed. Some 50 others appear in the proceedings of the International Perimetric Society, the Neuro-Ophthalmology journal, and in textbooks. There is one monograph, Clinical Tests of Vision (Raven Press, 1990; ISBN 0-88167-639-X). A full list is kept here.

• The cartographic deformations of the visual field. Ophthalmologica, 1970 [1]
• An adjustable biomicroscopy contact glass with erect imagery. Arch Ophthalmol, 1972 [2]
• A simple relationship between the probability distribution of visual acuity and the density of retinal output channels. Acta Ophthalmol, 1976 (with M Frisén) [ [3]
• Spectrum of optic nerve hypoplasia. Br J Ophthalmol, 1978 (with L Holmegaard) [4]
• Swelling of the optic nerve head: a staging scheme. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat, 1982 [5]
• High-pass resolution perimetry and age-related loss of visual pathway neurons. Acta Ophthalmol, 1991 [6]
• New, sensitive window on abnormal spatial vision: rarebit probing. Vision Res, 2002 [7]
• Characterization of vigabatrin-associated optic atrophy. Acta Ophthalmol, 2003 (with K Malmgren) [8]
• The Lazy Shadow – a monocular counterpart to the Pulfrich stereo phenomenon. Br J Ophthalmol, 2007 [9]
• Deviations of the visual upright in three dimensions in disorders of the brainstem: a clinical exploration. Brain, 2010 [10]

From 2017 onward new material will be presented exclusively on this site. Newly developed tests will be listed in the Diagnostic aids section.

Incidentally, I am not on social media; e-mails are welcome.

Other interests  include tinkering (I have my own metal lathe and milling machine), programming (nowadays mostly in HTML/Javascript), literature (O'Brian, Rushdie, Tolkien, ...), and Swedish art glass.